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If the sons of Aegyptus have authority over you by the law of your country claiming that they are nearest of kin, who would wish to contest it? [390] You must plead in accordance with the laws of the land you have fled, that they have no authority over you.
Aeschylus. Aeschylus, with an English translation by Herbert Weir Smyth, Ph. D. in two volumes. 2. Suppliant Women. Herbert Weir Smyth, Ph. D. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. 1926.
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